What are the main types of ancient porcelain in China?

It is a big classification to divide folk kilns into official kilns.

Subdivided, there appeared a famous folk kiln, five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty: Chai Rujun Geding.

Firing time is the most commonly used classification and naming method. Including two aspects: first, painting "Chao", such as Tang porcelain, Song porcelain, Ming porcelain, Qing porcelain and so on; The second is painting "Nian", which is generally used in Ming and Qing porcelain, such as Ming Hongwu kiln and Ming Xuande kiln.

The shooting range refers to the total shooting area. For example, "Yueyao" refers to the kiln sites in Yuyao, Shangyu and Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and "Yaozhou Kiln" refers to the kiln sites in Huangbao Town, Chen Lu Town, Lidipo, Shangdian and Yuhua Palace, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province.

Firing characteristic embryo, glaze color, decoration, modeling and inscription are the five elements of porcelain. Among them, glaze color is an important criterion to distinguish porcelain categories. In the development of China ceramics, it has gone through the process from monochromatic glaze to multicolor glaze. Monochrome glazes include blue glazes, white glazes, red glazes, blue glazes, yellow glazes, green glazes and black glazes. Blue glaze can be divided into pink glaze, azure glaze and bean glaze. White glaze is sweet white glaze and blue white glaze, and red glaze includes red, ox blood red and cowpea red glaze. Multicolor glaze includes two types: one is to form glaze with blocks of different glaze colors and shapes, such as uniform glaze; The other uses glaze to outline patterns, such as blue and white, pastel and so on. It is also called "painted porcelain". Colored porcelain can be divided into three types: over-glaze color, under-glaze color and double-layer clip color.

Kiln burning is the most vivid reflection of the feudal hierarchy in China. The official kiln ware generally refers to the products specially fired by the official kiln factory for the royal family, which began in the Tang and Five Dynasties and was unprecedented in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Folk kiln products are all kinds of products fired by folk kiln factory. The official kiln is exquisite in craftsmanship, dignified and luxurious, and the folk kiln is free and lively.